From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 14:08:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA07504 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:08:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.jmrodgers.com ([205.247.224.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07473 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:08:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from meuston@jmrodgers.com) Received: from max.jmrodgers.com (max.jmrodgers.com [205.247.224.209]) by mail.jmrodgers.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA12631; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:06:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from meuston@jmrodgers.com) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:00:33 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD420E.E25A8380.meuston@jmrodgers.com> From: Max Euston To: "'dannyman'" , Philippe Regnauld , Mike Smith Cc: "'FreeBSD Hackers'" Subject: RE: New utilities: factor(1) and wid(1)? Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:00:31 -0500 Organization: J.M. Rodgers Co., Inc. X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, February 25, 1998 4:57 PM, dannyman [SMTP:dannyman@sasquatch.dannyland.org] wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 10:46:06PM +0100, Philippe Regnauld wrote: > > Mike Smith writes: > > > > > > can you think of a present program into which it might fit better > > > > a an option? > > > > > > wc(1) > > > > (damn, faster than me :-) > > > > ... -L ? > > Or -C or -W ... I can't think of anything else ... "columns" "lines" "width" > ??? > > Maybe we *do* need a seperate app?!? ;) > > -i for "w-eye-duh" > > -- > //Dan -=- This message brought to you by djhoward@uiuc.edu -=- > \\/yori -=- Information - http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/djhoward/ -=- > aiokomete -=- Our Honored Symbol deserves an Honorable Retirement I could use -L for width of lines and -W for width of words (-l to -L and -w to -W)? ... I still like (and use) the maximum/minimum/mean information ... Just thinking out loud. I'm going home now, I'll think about it during the drive. Max ----- Max Euston Sysadm, Programmer, etc... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message